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Even with time payments, there seems little likelihood that many Russians will be able to get much on the cuff. The fact is that most luxury items are still in short supply. Last week a precedent-breaking deal to export Moskvich and Volga autos to West Germany fell through because Russia could not guarantee delivery of 2,500 cars. The severest trial for the Soviet worker who wants a camera or a motorcycle is not financing the inflated price, but waiting while his name slowly drifts to the head of a long waiting list...
...Russians "very substantial" amounts of industrial equipment no longer on the West's strategic embargo list, including complete chemical, plastics and tire plants. The parties also agreed for the first time to exchange $6,000,000 worth of consumer goods annually, including a few token Soviet cars (the Moskvich and the Volga...
RUSSIAN AUTO INDUSTRY will be shaken up in an effort to equal Western standards. After years of putt-putting along with four out-of-date models-the Moskvich (like a 1939 German Opel), the Pobeda (like a 1939 Ford), the Zim (like a 1946 Buick) and the Zis (like a 1941 Packard)-the Reds admit that their postwar designs "are in some respects inferior." A special Auto Ministry will be set up to boost production (1955 planned output: a bare 80,000 cars), cut prices, bring out a new people's car called the Volga, facelift the others...
Russia has moved in on the low-priced car market in Western Europe. Her Moskvich was a big hit at the Brussels auto show. A four-cylinder four-seater, its radiator cap flaunting a red star, the Moskvich sold fast at $978, much the cheapest car at the show. For this quo, plus some gram and minerals, Russia's quid, under a trade treaty with Belgium, included sheet steel, copper, electrical equipment, and $150,000 worth of herring...